-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hey there, everybody. this is kate bolduan here. she got more rest than yesterday. >> this is t.j. holmes. >> welcome to you all. >> thank you for joining us, keeping a close eye on the gulf this morning. nearly a mile underwater robots are working to replace the cap from that leaking oil well.

until then, oil is spewing into the gulf and it's a lot of oil. we have a live update straight ahead. today is the last day you have to hear about soccer for another four years. just kidding, folks, i'm sure it's catching on in the u.s., right? the world cup. today the finale, the big finale. we'll take you live to spain, we'll take you live to the netherlands, those two countries going at it today in the final, also tell you about the third place game yesterday that nobody really cares about but again, we'll be taking you to the south africa where the actual tournament is taking place. today is the last day in the month-long tournament. >> one of us in here still enjoyed the game, one of us clearly. >> you can guess who didn't. let me give you a look at some of the other stories we are keeping an eye on this morning. good news for this country's veterans. new rules will be taking effect tomorrow, they'll help vets of this country with post traumatic stress disorder, make it easier

for them to get treatment. beforehand this was difficult, time-consuming, even complicated. when they applied for the post traumatic stress disworld treatments they had to have specific events and have specific notes of events that happened to them when they were in war. this going into effect, going to help all u.s. vets, not just from the iraq and afghanistan war. we were talking about record heat in the northeast but man, what a difference a couple of days makes. this is out of boston, heavy rains led to some flash flooding, a few people had to be rescued and a few people obvi s obviously stranded as well. also a major disruption for boston's transit system. also take a look at these pictures, something we haven't seen in quite some time, it's fidel castro, these are new pictures we're seeing, they are posted on a pro-government blog own an a state-run website. this is the former cuban

president, 83 years old now. this would be the first official or public outing he's had since 2006. he was seen meeting with some people at the national center of scientific investigations, this was in eye vanna on wednesday. we can not independently verify when the pictures were taken, according to the state-run web site these pictures were taken last week. an update on the gulf oil disaster, it is day 83. bp says if all goals well in a matter of days it will capture almost all of the oil that is escaping. until that happens things will get worse before they can get better. oil is pouring out at a rate of 60,000 barrels a day. why? bp removed the containment cap we were talking about yesterday that had been capturing some of the oil for the past few weeks and a new and improved cap is supposed to take its place in the next few days. the company says the work is

proceeding as planned. the cap is detained to form a tight seal, enabling bp to siphon off all of the oil from the well but the final solution still rests with those relief wells that are being drilled. >> let's turn to new orleans and the gulf oil disaster. reynolds wolf has been there for the past several days. good morning to you once again. kate just describing about the process, how it's supposed to go and going to be helped along a bit because maybe we don't have to worry about another storm or any bad weather for awhile. that's a big deal. >> reporter: thankfully we have a window of seven to ten days to really get some things done. the thing we have to get done is stop the oil roaring out, nothing is stopping it, it's going full force. around 12:37 yesterday afternoon central time, they removed the cap. right now the oil is coming out. just to give you an idea how crazy this is, a fire hose going on at full blast and trying to get a bottle cap to seal the

thing off. it's nuts to try to do it but that's the game plan. bp plans to have the cap in place sometime tomorrow, sometime over the next four to seven days to have it on top of the leak. the new cap is called top hat ten and it is massive, it weighs 150,000 pounds. today it is really the beginning of a two-part process. the first part is to clean out everything above and beyond the blowout preventer, a lot of the old equipment. the second part is fasten that new thing, the top hat ten right in place. if you have that perfect seal, it's going to siphon, pull all of the up from the depths of the oceans some 5,000 feet down to the vesselless of the surface, a tandem of four different vessels. if it goes as planned it has to be picture perfect. we have that window of weather where things should be okay. that's good news.

bad news is the rate the flow of oil is coming out, gallons per day, the government guesstimatings. it's somewhere from 1.5 to 2.5 million gallons, gallons a day just flowing out. with this new cap in place, what it is capable of doing is possibly bringing anywhere from 2.5 to 3.4 million gallons. that will far ex-sealed the output so that's the good news. the thing is everything has to be picture perfect. we have had plans in place before everyone thought would come out with no issues whatsoever. always a wrinkle here and there. there may be missteps here and there today. things are now going as planned, great news. let answer keep our fingers. crossed for the time being. >> reynolds you were talking and we were showing the live pictures. take that picture full and reynol reynolds i'll continue talking with you. we don't have the live feed from the oil gushing out but clearly bp still working and you

described this, i don't know if you can see the picture but you were describing it perfectly here, a lot of work is going down and what is happening now like you said they're just trying to clean it up a bit and get the place ready for a new cap. >> reporter: absolutely. think about if you're painting a room in a house and got basic drywarm. first thing is you put on some kind of a little bit of a coating almost like adhesive before you put the paint on, the primer. think of this as putting primer down. they're cleaning everything else, priming it for the top hat ten, so they have to basically clean the surface, adhere it and everything should go as planned. even if this works absolutely perfectly, you still have the big solution, that big solution will be not one but two relief wells supposed to be drilled in sometime closer to august, hopefully with luck it will happen even sooner but the relief wells will be really the final key we hope. this would be a big shot in the arm and a tremendous help at

stemming the flow of the oil going nuts in the gulf of mexico. what a disaster. >> reynolds, appreciate you, buldy. we want to show the live pictures to our viewers, live activity going on, you can see the work going on right now, it's clear the pictures. have been changing over this weekend because they have like you said an active weekend and clearly it is by the pictures, we've been getting some descriptions. of what's going on but reynolds with another great analogy, liking it to dry wall and trying to paint a room. we appreciate you and the analogies as always putting it as only you can. we'll talk to you again shortly buddy. >> reporter: you bet, man. officials in mississippi feared the worst and now it's happened. they had warned unless some preventative measure was taken the oil would seep into their marsh. cnn crews were out in waveland, mississippi, where cleanup cruise were hard at work with what's now unfortunately a familiar site, retrieving

oil-soaked booms. it's expected to get worse until engineers lower a new containment cap. ines ferre spoke to the mayor. >> we raised a red flag when the southeast wind was coming and the tide was come, this is what's going to happen, this is what we've been telling you, the berms we wanted to put up on the side of the beach, the berms went up yesterday after the fact. it's been a response rather than the aggressive fight to stop it, it's response after the damage is done and that's what makes you angry, that's what's frustrating. >> a navy blimp had been deployed to direct skimmer ships to oil slicks as they're spotted, still in the works. a lot of people keeping their eye on the sky today to see something you just do not get to see that often. but one caveat here, you are not going to see it. sorry. ten minutes past the hour. i'll explain.

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♪ little darling it seems like years since it's been here ♪ ♪ here comes the sun >> thank you for that. she just had to inform me this is music. i was asking what the song was specifically. specifically what it was, but there's a reason for that. "here comes the sun" or there goes the sun.

we're going to see something today around the time of the world cup game you don't often see, a total solar eclipse. this is just a picture of what you're probably not going to see but we can explain why you're not going to see it. this is from '09 back in the day, an earlier one that was in india people saw, this is video 2009 solar eclipse. something like this today. >> but what the problem is here is that not here in the states you're only going to see it in the cook islands, tahiti or easter island. if you can jump on a plane head over there, 2:15 eastern. >> yes. >> so book your plane tickets! and hope for no flight delays due to weather. >> might we? >> it's going to last about five minutes, too. >> going to last five minutes. >> yes. >> the next time we get anything celestially exciting will be december of this year, we'll have a lunar eclipse. >> are we going to see that? >> we will see that. >> how often do we see these

things? >> they're actually, i was looking into 20 to something, they can figure the solar and lunar eclipse out. >> exciting. >> we can do this all day. >> astronomy. weather-wise do we have flight delays yesterday? >> it was crazy. >> it was crazy? >> it's still not crazy. it's really cleared out quite a bit. i'll take you over to the magic wall and we'll see big thunderstorms just rumbling across the midwest. take a look at this, just took a look at what's happening around omaha, also near kansas city, omaha severe thunderstorms breaking out before it's all said and done maybe half an inch to an inch. we aren't looking at any warnings issued for the area. it's going to be rough for the next couple of hours. here is the system pulling away across the northeast so all the delays that we saw, the major airports along the i-95 corridor

we're not going to see them today. it's going to be nice. it clears out the atmosphere, after all those triple digit temperatures that we saw in the past week or so. this morning, new york city you wake up to 71 degrees in cleveland. it's a very nice 66 degrees outside and for chicago the temperature right now 71. now this is a different aspect, we were looking at reynolds wolf along the gulf coast. temperatures there are going to be in the low 90s but with the humidity, it's going to feel closer to 100 degrees so new orleans, 90 degrees. houston 93 degrees. dallas 94 and sultry, humid air across the southeast. where it's going to be nicer is across the northern tier, temperatures are right now mostly in the 60s. you'll only make it up to about 77 degrees in minneapolis, and as we go through the afternoon and into next week, into the pacific northwest, those temperatures are really going to be warming up considerably over the next couple of days.

isolated thunderstorms expected for the southwest, but as you head towards the northeast the temperatures in the next couple of days warming up rather nicely. as i mentioned temperatures into the northwest maybe around 80 degrees in seattle for today but as we go towards the middle of the work week, mid to upper 80s expected so we start to see that shift in temperatures once again, and kate and t.j., we'll look at the, continue to monitor the weather along the gulf coast where it will be steamy, heat advisories issued. >> karen maginnis, thanks very much. talk to you shortly. flugtag. >> what does that mean? >> flying day in germany. you've stheen before. >> "flying." >> this is a plunge. they do this every year, fun to watch, biscayne bay, they essentially plunge 30 feet,

they're supposed to try to fly but don't get very far. >> more falling and it's human-powered. the whole slogan, red bull gives you wings. and there you go. it's very -- >> you see how this goes these whacky ideas, elaborate. >> that's a beer mug. >> they don't go far and the winner this year, he only had to go 54 feet to win, 54 feet is not very far but they flew 54 feet and had professional engineers and professional pilot on their team that could only go 54 feet. >> i think what you win is actually flying lessons, which is hilarious. >> actual lesson but fun to show. you can't really test these things ahead of time so this is your test flight. i don't think anybody was injured but they had these

competitions all over. >> they should have a cnn go at that with t.j. holmes sitting in as pilot. >> they can't get our compute irs and cameras. working sometimes so i don't want them to design them. >> if we go off the air it was because he made a lot of people mad. >> no, that's because we had a lot of things happen this weekend. this one made national headlines here. >> a homeless man in the middle of a rainstorm pays special respect to the american flag. you're seeing surveillance video that caught it. people are lining up to pay tribute to him. stay with us.

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♪ freedom, freedom what we all need ♪ great story we can bring you on this sunday morning, really caught a lot of people's eye, has the whole country talking, very simple story but it was a big gesture at the same time. >> simple things can be very big to a lot of people, had a big

impact, a simple unselfish gesture. you saw some surveillance video in the middle of the night during a rainstorm a homeless man found an american flag that had been blown to the ground in el paso, texas. simple, right? he picked it up and carefully folded it in military fashion. if it weren't for the surveillance video you're seeing, no one would know about it. a local tv station tracked him down, found him living in a nearby warehouse. listen here. >> it's a respect for folding the flag like that. >> it was an amazing experience to see that, it was heartwarming to see that good samaritan walking around that area that time of the day in the rain, will come to the rescue of the u.s. flag. >> so people saw that, and a lot of grateful americans now want to return the favor to augustus bozarth for his unselfish act of patriotism. the wells fargo has opened up an

account for donations. >> just somebody walking by and to think enough of the flag to have enough respect for it no matter what to stop and put it in its proper place, that was awesome. glad we could bring you that. >> yep. something that i also think is awesome. >> i think it's awesome, too. >> i think it's awesome, eyebrow raised. 32 teams, 31 days, the world cup caught the attention of billions of fans across the globe. >> the final is today, of course taking place in south africa. we're going to be live there. also, going to be live in the two countries of the competing teams. we have a preview for you coming up. it's 25 minutes past the hour on this "cnn sunday morning." it recommends the custom fit orthotic that's best for your feet. and footcare scientists are behind it. you'll get immediate comfort... ... and, you could save a couple hundred bucks. for locations see drscholls.com

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hey there, everybody. we were just saying, ahh, because kate and i are seeing a lovely shot of atlanta this morning and we'll share it with you now right across from where we are downtown. >> good morning, atlanta. >> centennial park, a gorgeous start to the day. things will be a hot one, a lot of places getting a little cooldown, relief with some weather. >> with the rain. >> gorgeous picture out of atlanta where we are this morning and glad you're here with us >> yeah, we are. good morning, everybody. >> like i mentioned, kate here

with us this weekend. good to have you. >> thank you. >> good news for this country's veterans, new rules going into effect tomorrow, that are going to help veterans with post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd. rules make it easier to get benefits and counseling. it had been a bit difficult for them, they were even required before they got some benefits and counseling to actually recall specific events, essentially have notes about events that happened to them out on the battlefield, that is not required, not as tough anymore. this applies to veterans of all wars in this country, not just iraq and afghanistan. four inches of rain, some places getting relief but that's too much relief there, this is in boston. you can see some of the mess they have there. a lot of rain fell, four inches, caused all kinds of problems, including causing problems with their transit system there, some people had to be rescued as well, also in one suburb we can

tell you about as well they saw a good mess of things as well and people had to be evacuated including at the police headquarters even. we'll give you one more picture here, fidel castro, something we haven't seen in some time, this is his first paubl experience since stepping down as president in 2006 after intestinal surgery. these pictures come from a pro-government blog and state-run website. we cannot independently verify when the pictures were taken but we're told by the website the pictures were taken this week. the former president seen meeting with people at a national center of scientific investigation, in havana. the latest on the gulf oil disaster, day 83 we are in and oil flows freely into the gulf of mexico as bp prepares the containment cap on that gushing oil well. the company says it hopes to have the better fitting new cap

in place within the next week. small row bopts were used to remove six bolts from the old cap so the new cap can be positioned and we've been seeing in the live video they're working on it as we speak. the old cap had been diverting 15,000 barrels a day on the surface and bp is recovering an additional 8,000 to 9,000 barrels a day through a line connected to another vessel so it's believed this is the cap that you're looking at. i think that's not, no, that's not live video. it's believed they're working on the cap now and company officials say the current oil containment work will increase in the coming weeks. a fleet of skimmer also help recover the oil making its way to the surface. the final solution, again, still rests with two relief wells that are being drilled. t.j.? looking at caps there, we're talking about caps, new cap going to be put in place. let me bring in our reynolds wolf talking to us, live in new orleans. reynolds you were talking about the new cap could be in place

today, that doesn't mean it's going to be on top of the gushing well, just means it's going to be down there and ready to be placed. did i hear you right earlier? >> reporter: precisely. when i say it's going to be in place, mostly we mean it's kind of in a staging area close by but not on top, actually affixed to it, if everything goes at planned for possibly the next four to seven days. at that point the cap attached to the siphon will draw up the oil to the surface, it will go to a small flotilla that four ships will then be able to gather the oil. cap sounds like something that's kind of small. this is not small. this is enormous, talking about something that weighs 150,000 pounds. this is called the top hat ten, it will be put in place as i mentioned later on. before they get to that point they have to start off with a clean slate. yesterday afternoon at 12:37 central time, undersea robots cleared things off, they removed

the old cap yesterday. the two-step plan is to remove the old equipment from atop the leak and then they start the process of placing, getting things ready, keeping that slate clean for the new cap to be placed on. the thing that's big about this, this really could make a tremendous difference, because even with the old cap, there was still some spillage, you still had some additional leaking, still issues using the underwater dispersants to keep the oil down below going up to the surface. it was never a perfect seal. this could and should change everything. we'll take the vast majority if not all the oil in theory up to the surface and to the ships. as kate mentioned earlier, this is really the thing that drives the point home this will not be over unless we have not one but two relief wells if they're successful with those, it will not be any time hopefully it will be sometime mid-august, maybe a little bit before but looks like august is the time where we can see a definitive end as to when the crisis should make a turn for the better. >> as we know, reynolds, it has

been the fear for so many folks as we keep the live picture up here, the fear was that we're in hurricane season now, you never know what's going to happen, expected to be an active hurricane season but we had alex that kind of disrupted things for awhile but now in this important period now to get this new cap on and maybe mother nature, weather going to cooperate for a few days? >> looks that way. karen ma ginnis is going to give you the particulars coming up. you're absolutely right. t.j. we have a little bit of a window where things should be okay for the next seven to ten days. you nailed it. when it comes to what's happening in the gulf of mexico and when it comes to the weather situation really there is that big connection. from everything going on with the well to even the testing of the "a whale" the giant skimmer ship. now they have a break in the weather so they can test that and of course a break in the weather will allow this procedure to go forward. so again weather certainly a big part of this. >> rennie we freesh, talk to you

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♪ apparently this is kate b d bolduan's theme song. trust me, it was interesting. then there were two. world cup wraps up today. many americans are relieved they won't have to hear about soccer for four years until the next world cup. maybe we will become a soccer nation one day but you need to stop and be a soccer nation today because this is a big deal, the world cup, this is exciting stuff, if you ever watch a soccer match watch the one today. spain, the netherlands, heavy hitters going at it, at the final this is afternoon, but there was a match yesterday. a lot of people got on to me because i wasn't into the match yesterday they were fighting to see who was going to be third.

uruguay, germany went at it again. people say this is for pride but they're fighting for something. it was compared to most games this was pretty high scoring. 3-2, germany picks up third place, so there you go, what do they get? nothing. all right, let's turn now, we're going to check in with the teams playing today. we got of course you have spain and the netherlands. we'll take you to both of the spots in a second. let's start at the mecca of the soccer world and that is here we are, south africa. and that is where we find our dear friend there throughout the world cup, aisha, hello. i wasn't being too hard on americans and soccer there, was i? >> reporter: no, i don't think you were being too hard, t.j. i'm determined to convert you into a soccer lover even if it kills me so i have some work to do obviously. i am here at soccer city stadium

where the final will be played between the netherlands and spain. the gates are still closed, kickoff is well over seven hours away. after 63 matches it is down to this, this great final that so many people are looking forward to. as kickoff is some hours asay there aren't this many fans around but there are some spain and netherlands fans kicking around wearing their colors. we had fans yelling in the background earlier today so i'm prepared for that as i'll be down here with the fans. there are a lot of security personnel around for an event of this magnitude you'd expect a tight security cordon in place today. we expect nearby roads to be closed down and know they've already been having a security briefing but really, t.j., the atmosphere is going to build up to this massive party. i know you like to party. you're going to miss a good one here in south africa. t.j.? >> okay, if all it takes to convert me to soccer is that we're going to party, i'm sold,

but who do you think will be better represented at the game today? will it will be more spain fans, more of the netherlands fans? >> reporter: i think, bearing in mind i've been around a fair amount in south africa during the tournament i have spent some time with the dutch fans, they have a very large contingent here on the ground and t.j., talking about people who know how to party, these people know how to party. they're getting on a train a short time from now, chartered for the event, from praetoria to johannesburg, dressed in their orange and clogs and orange wigs. i think you'll see a healthy turnout by the dutch on this day. >> we look forward to you coming back and teaching us what you learned from the dutch, you know how to party. isha always good to see you. looking forward to have you back in atlanta. we turn now to spain, they've never won the big dance either, even though they've been a powerhouse in the world of soccer for years and years and

years, still never won the world cup before. our cnn madrid chief al goodman is there. they have waiting a long time for this party, al. are they ready? >> reporter: they are definitely ready, t.j. this is the first time spain has ever gotten into the final of the world cup and the spanish prime minister says this is the most glorious day in a long history of spanish soccer. the nation answer leading newspaper says the country is at a standstill, but we have found that not quite to be the case. we've seen a lot of people heading to the bars to have a drink before they watch this match and where i'm standing they are setting up four big screens right here in the center of madrid, later this day there will be tens of thousands of people watching this game which comes at a difficult time for spain, it's got a deep recession, 20% unemployment, the highest among the countries that use the euro as their currency, but people have become happy all of the sudden, they're out, they're spending, they're buying

flags which are hanging all over their country, they're buying shirts for the rojas, the red team out there on the field and generally they feel they have a pretty good chance of beating the dutch side, the holland side. they've got a lot of respect for them, they know it will not be easy but this country is really into a big fiesta. t.j.? >> a big fe fiesta, question hear the music going around you. we're sure the street will be packed and we'll check in with you later today. thanks so much. spain has to get by a formidable opponent, if you have not been watching the dutch are on a 25-game winning streak coming into this, unbeaten in the world cup. they've not just had draws like a lot of other teams coming through, they're 6-0, won every game. cnn's diana magnay in amsterdam. hello to you.

>> reporter: hi there, today. i am going to be surrounded by a sea of orange. the dutch fans know how to party. there are people at the museums plain, the main viewing area in amsterdam, expected to be around 200,000 people here later on. they will be covered in wigs, hats, even glasses like this one, these are my favorite gear. but just to look around, you'll see a bit of the preparation going on, there are five huge screens going to be erected for the fans, 200,000 people in this whole area. they've been building this site for 24 hours. i don't know if you can make out that building over there, the queen's granddaughter with an orange vuvuzela. it will be an exciting atmosphere. holland, this is the third time they'll have been in a world cup final and never won it before. they've lost two world cup finals in 1974 and in 1978, and so they're hoping that this time around they make it and you know what, the u.s. vice president

btded about said he thinks the netherlands are going to win so we'll have to see if he's right. >> we'll see if he's right. he also said he's not too good about predictions. diana magnay in amsterdam and thanks to al goodman in pla ma drid, spain, and isha sesay reporting the whole time in south africa. kate, can you imagine our day is going to come one day here in the u.s. where we are all gathered around the tvs watching the u.s. team go for a world cup championship and we could have that excitement as well. >> until then i have a spain assignment, the johannesburg assignment or the amsterdam assignment. >> not bad but you have the atlanta assignment now. >> love atlanta assignment. moving on looking at artwork that looks right back at you, take a look at this giant eyeball in chicago. the back story of this interesting piece of art, next.

i love, this here is a staring contest you won't win even if you're fabulous at it and very determined. a giant 30-foot eyeball in downtown chicago. >> i don't get this. >> i think it's awesome. >> it's a piece of art. >> yes. >> i'm not, i'll admit i am not sophisticated enough to understand art but this is a blue eye, it's modelled after the artist's own eyeball. >> yes. >> apparently fiberglass panels attached to a steel frame. you were saying they had stuff like this in chicago before. >> the bean in chicago. i loved that.

>> just a big bean. >> it's like consumer art, you don't have to pay to go in and see it. ♪ i know it was equally as massive. i don't know if it was the same artist. >> i don't get it. karen, can you help me? >> old eyeball pieceses of art go to drywall or storage or something? where do they put that? >> good point. that is huge >> where does it go next? we will find out. >> exactly. >> what's going on, karen? >> we had severe flooding yesterday in boston, three to five inches of rainfall and we had that big heat wave last week where the temperatures were in the triple digits. not that so much. expecting temperatures to cool down. it takes a violent event like that for the temperatures to really kind of readjust and here's what's going to happen today. new york city on the warm side, 88, but isn't that better than 104 or 105 degrees? across the southeast look at the 90s that are going to be in

place, 93 expected for atlanta, hazy, hot, humid, those are the triple words that are said over and over again all across the deep south, but even into new orleans, where we've been watching constantly, the events taking place along the gulf coast there is a heat advisory in effect. seattle will make it to 80 degrees but you'll notice over the next three to five days those temperatures gradually warming up and we'll see probably not record-setting temperatures but it is going to be fairly oppressive. 106 in las vegas, 106 degrees expected for phoenix. all right in the forecast here's what's going on. what did produce all the violent weather and break that heat wave in the northeast and new england is this cold front but now sandwiched across the midwest all the way from minneapolis, towards omaha, and towards oklahoma city, what a year by the way it's been for oklahoma city. floods, wind damage, snowstorms, blizzards, oklahoma, i think you'll see about a 40% chance of

thunderstorms today, and as we mentioned warm across the west and getting warmer, isolated thunderstorms in the desert southwest, this is the time of year they rely on the monsoonal moisture for their growing season. it looks like about a 40% chance of thunderstorms both in tucson and in phoenix, so those are the big headlines t doesn't look like the heat wave anymore but now we're adjusting the temperatures just a little bit. kate, t.j., back to you. >> we are going to watch it. >> thank you, as always, we appreciate you. thanks. >> no flight delays, please. >> no flight delays. you had issues yesterday but made it here. >> everyone's like get over it, kate. >> it's difficult. >> we're over it. >> we're okay, she's rested. stay with us here on cnn this week. did you realize it has now been six months since that devastating earthquake in haiti? here's a look at the recovery, the philanthropy expert says u.s. relief organizations raised

almost $1.3 billion, almost the amount they raised for the tsunami in indonesia. much of the money has not been spent. access to health care has improved but we're told more permanent medical facilities are needed. 60% of the country's hospitals collapsed in the quake, thousands of people homeless, makeshift tents and tarp shelters. we have some special coverage coming up this week on the efforts there, our anderson cooper going one on one with the former president bill clinton and u.s. envoy to haiti, tomorrow 9:00, 10:00 eastern right only here on cnn. congress returns to washington after a week off with a lot of issues awaiting them as always. a look at the political week ahead coming up next. stay with us.

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into the gulf. we can't describe to you exactly what you're seeing in front of you but you can see as we are seeing that it is quite frankly very active down there. we can see the robotic arms working to do this, back to the main part of the well where the oil is gushing again the other cap is now off, so more oil is starting to flow unabated into the gulf than had been in previous weeks with the cap on but again, the point of this is to get another cap on to allow them to siphon up more oil. this picture continues to change, this live picture but it's obvious a lot of activity, a lot of work going on in the gulf right now. we will keep a close, close eye on this, of course, throughout the weekend and in the coming days. a lot of people are, in fact, keeping an eye on this, but it's going to be an important week in other areas as well, of course the president has been and the government and bp a lot of people, but how does politics play into all of this, this week? >> a big week for politics as well. let's get an update from cnn's

deputy political director paul shine hauser with "the week ahead." >> good morning, kate, t.j. congress is coming back to town after a week-long break for the fourth of july. lawmakers have a lot on their plates with most of the action in the senate, among the unfinished business, extended unemployment benefits for americans out of work, trying to pass the wall street and financial reform bill, advancing the clean energy and climate change bill and voting on elena kagan's nomination to the supreme court. also the temporary replacement for the late senator robert byrd who died two weeks ago and find out if a special election will take place to fill his seat this november or in two years. president barack obama is most likely to host congressional leaders from both parties at the white house to find common ground on top issues. thursday the president travels to michigan for a clean energy event and the end of the week senator john mccain facing a primary threat from the right debates former congressman and

radio talk show host j.d. hayworth. kate, t.j.? >> a lot going on this week in politics. >> as always in d.c., you don't get a down day. >> a lot of news going on. >> we got a lot going on this morning as well, just a few minutes to the top of the hour, quick break and we're right back. i can't wait to just sit by the pool and relax. yea. [loud music playing and yelling] with chase sapphire you always get an expert advisor immediately. man: chase sapphire, this is brian. hi, brian. we're on vacation and would love to change hotels. you call. we answer. [faint music playing] problem solved. is the music too loud? ♪ ♪ go to chase.com/sapphire.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hey there, everybody from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is "cnn sunday morning" for july the 11th, this is world cup final day. good morning to you all. i'm t.j. holmes. >> and i'm kate bolduan. thank you so much for joining us this morning. 7:00 a.m. in atlanta and 1:00 in the afternoon in johannesburg,

south africa, keeping a close eye on the world cup as well as on the gulf this morning as always. right now, nearly a mile under water, robots are working to replace the cap from that leaking oil well, until it's replaced oil is spewing into the gulf, a lot of oil that unfortunately and we have a live update on that straight ahead. also today you won't see a day like this again for another four years, when the next world cup comes along but the final is today, the u.s. one day we will have this day but today is the day where spain and the netherlands, we are checking in, in both places as they gear up for a big party in both spots. stay here with us. let's get a check of your top story this is morning. new rules take effect tomorrow to help vets with ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, rules will make it easier to get their benefits, benefits and counseling and things they really need, this covers all

veterans, not just those who served in iraq and afghanistan. critics are calling the current rules too complicated, too time-consuming. we've heard a lot of those complaints in the past when it comes to veterans and getting their benefits. also, heavy rain up to four inches, it caused flash flooding in boston metro area, seeing video from yesterday, complicating, making it difficult for traffic, slowing traffic down, stranding some drivers, several cars were even submerged at one underpass. drivers had to be rescued in that situation and one suburb the water forced police to evacuate their headquarters. and some new pictures of fidel castro. we haven't seen him in a long time, these appearing on a pro-government blog on a state-run website. the former cuban president is 83. he is seen here meeting at the national center of scientific investigations in havana, as reported by this website.

we have not been able to verify when the photos were taken but according to the website he was making a rare public appearance earlier this week. we haven't seen him making a public appearance since stepping town in 2006. here we are now on day 83 of the gulf oil disaster, and things are happening, which we can see from the live pictures. we have had these live pictures for some time now and usually the picture you see is of the well itself and oil gushing into the gulf. the pictures have been changing a lot in the past 24 hours. there's a lot of activity going on down there. this is a live picture. you can't necessarily make out that well, exactly what's happening and what you're seeing. we have seen throughout the morning robotic arms, oil gushing in the area, moving the cameras around because they are doing some work, taken one cap off and going to put another cap on and have a tighter seal. let me walk you through with the time line we're going to see in

the next several hours and several days. installation of the better fitting cap, this is going on at planned we're told, this could be done within the next several days, that is the estimation, maybe sometime this week. they're using these small reboprebopt robots to adjust this thing, a mile down below the surface of the water so it's tricky, tedious work to navigate to try to control a little robot when you're up on the surface and this is going on down below. the current oil containment work will increase in the coming weeks as well. here is a picture, one of those containment caps we're talking about, they had to take one off and going to put another on. this is one that was taken off, going to be taken back up to the surface. when they get done with all of this work they do believe once this is done, this new cap and also another ship is in place this week, they will be collecting just about all of the oil that's estimated to come out. this is not the permanent

solution, mind you, this is just something that can still keep the oil from coming out, the permanent solution still rests with those two relief wells that are still being built in the gulf, we are told they could be ready by the end of this month, late this month or sometime in august. kate? >> with oil gushing into the gulf once again, free flowing into the gulf here is what some people are wondering is it worth the risk to the environment to remove the old cap while they're waiting to replace it with another one? joining me to break this down is bp's latest containment operation is professor ameritus ed overton of louisiana state university's department of environmental sciences. thank you for joining us. what do you think of this latest effort by bp? they're calling it this two-pronged approach but it's risky. do you think this risk is worth it, because they'll be able to contain more oil if this cap works or should bp simply have waited for those relief wells to be completed?

>> well, i think it's worth it certainly, remember you not only are going to catch more oil but you're also going to stop using dispersants. at depths so you're getting two, if all this works so we'll know if it works in the next two or three days. you can look at the video and see how much has to be done and the views are not very easy, it's obstructed by all the oil so it's an incredibly difficult procedure, that's where the risk is, in the unknown. i'm sure they've planned all of the contingencies. but when things don't come right, a bolt doesn't come off, things like that and an awful lot of oil is going straight into the gulf now. understand that they've ramped up their skimming capability at the surface so that's very good because the more oil going into the gulf they need to really try to remove that oil before it gets to the coastline. >> we were talking about the

dispersants there, in addition to the concerns over dispersants you have oil free-flowing once again into the gulf. what concerns for, what environmental concerns do you have now that we're in day 83, where are we in terms of the effect of all of this still on the environment down there? >> well, the effect of all of this oil is just incredible. you've got really several different spills, you've got a deep surface spill, some of that oil doesn't ever get to the surface. it stays down in the water column, serves as food for bacteria, that can use up oxygen so there's a concern about oxygen depletion and the toxic effect on the juvenile species of a lot of the marine organisms. when oil gets to the surface, some of it is being skimmed, some being burned but a lot of it is being dispersed on the surface, that gets oil down in the water column, cnn has been running some beautiful pictures, taken by divers that were down in the subsurface looking at

that greenish color and that is dispersed oil, exactly what happens when oil is dispersed, goes down in the water clem, animals that swim in it are exposed oil but it helps the oil be removed by bacteria so that's why you disperse the oil, keeping it from getting onshore so you have to kind of hold your nose and accept damage in one section of the environment to try to protect the other so this is an incredible amount of potential damage that could be done. the sooner we stop this well, the sooner the environment can start to recover. >> that's exactly right and a very good point. you said hold your nose and you also have to cross your fingers, trying to get this capped and finally get that bottom kill method done, we've got a lot of people wondering what are the unknowns, can they pull this off? ed overton of louisiana state university thank you for joining us this early in the morning >> thank you, good morning. they're wondering if a hometown boy can help

cash-strapped gulf coast businesses hobbled by the disaster. jimmy buffett headlines a benefit concert on an alabama beach. reynolds wolf joining us once again from new orleans. reynolds, hello to you once again. a lot of folks trying to help out. >> reporter: the man from mississippi spent a lot of time in alabama learned how to play three strings at auburn university is going to have a concert tonight. he's doing everything he can as well as others to give the gulf of mexico or at least a lot of the five states that border the gulf a shot in the arm in terms of tourism. we've seen some numbers down in a lot of places. last weekend gulf shores, there were a lot of hotels not filled to capacity. the fourth of july weekend the big, big weekend. you look at the gulf coast, you look at texas and louisiana, mississippi, pam bam and florida, a lot of places have been down on their luck with one shining exception, that happens to be near new orleans and we spoke with someone yesterday

morning, t. martin has a business in new orleans and things here have been different, very successful. >> we're on a role. we had a sold out essence festival, jazz fest was fantastic. shortly the tails of the cocktail convention, typical new orleans, a convention for cocktails, it's fabulous you should come. i don't want to make light of the oil spill but so far things are good. last night i'm eating seafood in my restaurant. it's amazing. >> reporter: how do you attribute that success? we've seen gulf shores, alabama, biloxi, fewer people and they're hurting yet still the people continue to pile into new orleans. >> reporter: right, there are so many misperceptions, gulf shores, some are right on the coast. that's water but that's not a beach. that would be the mighty mississippi behind us and don't go swimming in there, okay? what's happened to us is things here are not like it. the misperception is that there's oil dripping off the balconies in the french quarter. the only oil is in the

marchinated crab salad at commander's palace. >> ti martin is coproprietor at commanders palace in new orleans. she's right. we tried some of the oysters last night, a few other things and things are pretty good to tell you the truth, things are just fine. that being said you featured a few weeks back some of the issue wps the oi s with the oyster houses closing down, some places hurting. they're keeping spirits high in new orleans. >> they're pulling out bad food from the gulf not necessarily but as a precaution the government is shutting down fishing waters and some of the restaurants don't have the food coming in to them anymore and something great that miss martin said yesterday if you come down to the new orleans or the gulf and don't have a good time, something is wrong with you. we know nothing's wrong with you. you guys have been tasting the local fare there, reynolds. >> reporter: absolutely. you bet. >> all right, buddy, we will

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trouble on the way ♪ that's a great shot. >> no, this is not fake. >> this is really -- it does t looks that great. this is in new orleans, folks, that is just across the mississippi there, the sun coming up and when it starts to peek out it's probably 90 degrees there now, they don't lay in new orleans but that was our reynolds wolf that went past the camera. >> blocking your view. >> yes, the lovely view there, but my goodness, that's great. you look at the city, you wouldn't think a thing was going on, a thing was looming on the folks in the gulf coast but we know what's happening but a beautiful shot and beautiful city. >> beautiful way to wake up. >> yes it is. >> wake up. >> good morning to you all. a lot of people will have the sun blocked out today. we'll see a rare total solar eclipse, it will take place around 2:15 eastern time, that will be right around the same time of the world cup championship today. >> which one do you watch? just kidding.

you're looking at images from a 2009 solar eclipse in india which is the moon will cover the sun but only for about five minutes so don't blink but you have to be in the cook islands, tahiti and easter island to get the best view, unfortunately. >> somebody is not going to get that mess annual and go outside today here in the u.s. and just check. you're not going to be able to see it here folks, sorry. >> what was she thinking? i don't know. let's take to you boston, where they are watching for rain this morning, two to four inches fell yesterday, causing some sporadic flash floods. >> karen maginnis, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> people wanting relief from the heat up in the northeast last week, now they want relief from some of this rain pouring down on them. >> we've got pictures out of boston not just boston but also into cambridge, there were a lot of rescues from cars, because of all the severe flooding. let's show you the pictures from there. this collects especially in the

underpasses that they have in boston, between two and four inches of rainfall fell. today a much better day. you'll stay cloudy, a little bit breezy but the frontal system that produced all that is now moving off the eastern seaboard, in its wake we're looking at much better conditions than the triple digits we've seen for so long. now those temperatures in the 80s, upper 80s, still sultry outside. strong thunderstorms expected across midwest and that's where we're seeing it this morning. if you're wondering about the temperatures into the pacific northwest we'll see around 80 degrees for seattle but the temperatures creep up a couple of degrees over the next several days so kate and t.j., it looks like the hot weather continues along the gulf coast with heat advisories, going to feel like 105 in new orleans. >> oh my goodness gracious! all right, heat's one thing, that's dangerous heat. >> it is, truly is. >> thank you so much. we'll talk to you again shortly. he was instrumental in bringing the world cup to south

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first world cup held on african soil has been a huge success. the exposure could work wonders for south africa's image. none of this possible without former south african president nelson mandela. you know the name and the accomplishments over time. we a hand in this as well. >> cnn has the story of the political prisoner who became a national treasure and international icon. >> south africans have a special spirit, in the african language it means humanity towards others. we've seen that spirit in full display over the last few weeks of world cup soccer. sadly age and a family tragedy kept nelson mandela away from the games but without a doubt it is mandela's bunto that has brought one of the world's leading sports to africa.

it led africa into a democratic country strong and stable enough to rise to the challenge. madipa as he is fondly known grew up herding cattle for his father. he ran away to johannesburg as a young man allegedly to escape an arranged marriage. he fulfilled his dream of studying law and in 1983 joined the african national congress. mandela spear-headed boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience campaigns to bring about freedom for black people. when the anc was banned in 1960 mandela went underground and formed the armed wing of the anc. though an advocate of non-violence, mandela believed the athat are pid governmeparth actions left them no choice. during the long years of incarceration the country hovered many times on the brink of violent revolution.

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